Kirk Yetholm Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/03/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Yetholm NGR NT 82568 28085 Coordinates 382568, 628085 — Robert Brown, 1835-7; interior recast circa 1935. Rectangular-plan Gothick church with tower to S. Coursed whinstone with cream sandstone dressings. Base course; eaves cornice; hoodmoulded lancet windows; chamfered reveals; polygonal buttress towers with obelisk finials clasping angles; pointed-arched and hoodmould doorways. TOWER: square-section, 3-stage tower. Doorway at ground to SE; modern 2-leaf door and tympanum; narrow round-arched louvre above; pointed-arched traceried louvre with clock at 3rd stage: gabled towerhead with corbelled finial to each face. Pointed-arched traceried window at 2nd stage to SW; 3rd stage detailed as above. Narrow round-arched blinded opening at 2nd stage to NW; pointed-arched louvre at 3rd stage. Pointed-arched louvre to 3rd stage to NE. SE ELEVATION: 3-bay with windows in each bay; doorway to outer left; modern 2-leaf door and tympanum. NW ELEVATION: 3-bay with windows in each bay. NE ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled. 2 traceried pointed-arched windows. SW ELEVATION: 3-bay gabled with tower in centre bay (see above). Lancet windows in bays to outer left and right; flat-roofed addition in re-entrant angle with tower to outer left. Clear glass leaded windows. Grey slate roof; coped gables. INTERIOR: stained glass in 2 chancel windows and window flanking organ by Ballantine and Son of Edinburgh; chamber organ; segmental arch to chancel; gallery supported by gilded fluted columns with foliate capitals; decorative plaster rose; original benches and dado panelling; carved timber lectern with traceried panels; clocks (1993); timber communion table and elders' chairs; bell inscribed "Johann

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.